Development Environment

Keeping a Session Log

The diary Function

The diary function creates a copy of your MATLAB session in a disk file, including keyboard input and system responses, but excluding graphics. You can view and edit the resulting text file using any word processor. To create a file on your disk called sept23.out that contains all the functions you enter, as well as MATLAB output, enter

• diary('sept23.out')
  

To stop recording the session, use

• diary('off')
  

Other Session Logs

There are two other means of seeing session information:

• The Command History, which contains a log of all functions executed in the current and previous sessions.
• The logfile startup option--see Startup Options.

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